Monday, January 10, 2011

New Insights... and a very interesting experience...

Today I entered a closed timelike loop.... But before I get to that, I must talk about the University of Arizona.
The campus is beautiful and I think I found a sufficient graduate school for my astrophysics studies. The most significant part of the visit was certainly the museum where I gained much knowledge about some Native American tribes which inhabited Arizona and surrounding areas. A question I had about a particular creation myth was not answered at the museum however. It involved a horse, which was not prevalent in the Americas prior to the sixteenth century. I was very much intrigued by this, but DA found an answer; That group of tribes did not form until later in history after the introduction of horses by the Spaniards. It still surprises me that their word of mouth history failed to include the introduction of horses and the Spaniards.

Now, onto the more interesting experience...
Ryan, Dane and I decided to venture to a pizzeria down the street from La Quinta for dinner. They invited me while I was leaving the hot tub inside the hotel's courtyard, which may be a significant factor. On our way to the dinner, we encountered Justin, or who we think was Justin. He was on a run and mentioned a Mongolian barbecue down the street. As we approached our intended destination, we noticed something peculiar. It was an old style dinner next to a very ancient looking theater playing a movie I had never heard of. Also, old cars were outside the building. We believed we were entering "Grandma Tony's", as advertised online, which was odd enough. Upon entering, we noticed we were in a very 1950s stereotype dinner, and it was called Little Anthony's. We were seated and a young woman asked where I got my shirt and why I "dared to wear something with the words "Hell Awaits" and "Slayer". She also commented I must be very irresponsible to wear blue jeans as torn as mine. She had never imagined someone who was as wealthy as I apparently was but appeared a slob. We noticed the dinner advertised coke products, but served Pepsi. We were again very confused, but noticed we had crayons and proceeded to use the disposable table cloth to solve the problem proposed earlier of how far Don would fall if he was in free fall for 10 consecutive minutes. We talked about the origin of the problem as a waitress approached us. She was impressed hearing the fact we had flown on an airplane. At this point, we noticed something was wrong. We asked her what year we are in, and she responded 1957. We then looked at the menu, which had a section titled "Things Elvis would not eat" and concluded we had entered a closed timelike loop. Dane, Ryan and I had all used the hot tub, and I had just left the hot tub prior to departure from the hotel. We conclude the hot tub in the courtyard is a delayed time loop which activated recently, and the person we encountered whom we believe to be Justin, was not only Justin, but also his grandfather. We then realized after receiving the bill, paying would be a problem. Luckily, I had a old 5 dollar bill from 1956 and we managed to pay a 1991 quarter without question. We were shocked that a 16" pizza, bread sticks, and hot wings amounted to only $5.25.

After we left the dinner, the sign was again "Grandma Tony's", and everything appeared normal. We returned to the hotel, and will soon begin attempted imaging of Jupiter for the second night in a row.

2 comments:

  1. A fascinating tale that I trust about as far as I can throw it. Still, no complaints; t'was an interesting read.

    I'm glad you found the answer to the horse issue. It was bothering me all day.

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  2. That sounds entirely impossible, but highly entertaining! So how far does Don fall in ten minutes?

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